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As a priest and then bishop, St. Basil the Great devoted sophisticated treatises to the Trinity and to articulating his vision of the Christian life. In his homilies, Basil distilled the best of his moral and theological teachings into forms readily accessible to his flock, and now to us. During his lifetime, Basil was recognized as one of the foremost rhetoricians of his day—a man supremely...

in life. And he wants us to associate with wisdom, saying: Say that wisdom is your sister [Prov 7:4]. And again: Love her, and she will guard you [Prov 4:6]. Then he points out that wisdom benefits all in common, and that the benefit it bestows is extended to all alike. He says: She slaughtered her own sacrificial victims [Prov 9:2]. In other words, she prepared solid food for those who have the faculties of their soul trained by practice [Heb 5:14].12 In a mixing bowl she mixed her own wine [Prov
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